Jinlai | Domineering CEO Simulator (Chapter 3, 172k words)

Who knows? :grinning_face:
In this particular event, it gets her off your back :wink:

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Alright, btw, maybe, just maybe, the negotiation thing with Zheng should be slightly easier in the case that you don’t have charm skill or watch movies as a hobby AND also not wanting to sedate him.

Lina does increase the cost because of the scandal, but you should still be able to get it reasonably low (if the aunt is not involved). There are very specific replies the chairman likes that increase his approval by a lot.

If you can’t get the old man to like you, just spend a lot of money…

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I bowed but the other options didn’t help me at all, in fact, they lower my approval in one way or another due to lack of charm or not having a movie hobby, the only thing that makes things suck less is my 70% preparation but it doesn’t feels that significant to me.

What can I say, its skill issue :grin: Need to have some negotiation lessons…

Regardless of other choices, 70% prep = +35 approval. 100% would be +50.

You also don’t need to have movies as a hobbie, you just need to study them and then lie to the old man.

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70 preparation is good, well ok.

Btw is there a way to reach 100 preparation?

MC with Intelligence perk gets double effect from “preparing more”, that is +10 per instance. You get 11 time blocks in total, and the 2 major options give you 30 preparation base. So in theory you should be able to get the remaining missing +70 with 9 “moves” you have left, even throw in watching couple of movies if you neglect everything else.

Did you assure the aunt you won’t be taking part in the succession war? If you didn’t, you take 30 point approval penalty right from the start.

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I chose preparing more without studying the moves after the first two options that give 30 preparation and can only reach 70% for some reason even if I choose to work more.

Yeah you’re right, funnily enough, it gets Zhang more sympathetic to me than when I have 70 preparation lol

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Also, keep in mind that other things take away from how much time you have. E.g. attending Lina’s party costs you 3 time blocks, which could be instead 30 extra preparation for Intelligent MC.

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I did choose charm as my stat so I can’t help there, but these are the choices I made during the negotiation that seemed to be good:

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Prepare as much as possible obv, researching two of the movies he likes (the smile one and bloody waters) With charm I was only 40% prepared and got 95% approval, though. The aunt didn’t bother me at all. Chose the “Depends on what you’re offering me to stay out of it” option and she took that as me saying I was staying out of it and focusing on what I could gain. Bow. “It might sound childish to you, but I want to make movies.” Name two of his favorite movies and one of your own. “I will continue operating it in the same way.”(Whether true or not he doesn’t need to know lol)

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There’s a minor bug with this routine:

*label dragon_work
*gosub_scene sbr print_current_date

*if ((preparation_time modulo 2) = 0)
  *gosub_scene sbr daily_update
  *if current_work_event < 5
    *gosub {"work_event_${current_work_event}"}
    *set current_work_event +1

Because some of the events (Lina’s party, sister’s call) can take up 2-3 time blocks, the game can potentially fail to properly advance the calendar on some days. E.g. Lina’s party executes after first day passed. It moves the time by 3 blocks and after next MC’s preparation the date is advanced, but only by 1 day i.e. 2 time blocks, when in “reality” 4 time blocks were consumed.

As a result, if you attend Lina’s party and help the sister to full extent, when the meeting day arrives the game can be thinking that it’s:

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Instead of Thursday, Sep 24th it’s “supposed” to be. Not a big deal in the current version, but it may have some impact when the stock market is actually accessible, since the prices etc are tied to the daily update.

edit: one more error, although this one is quite bigger:

    *gosub_scene sbr budget "-" dragon_bid

this call fails to take into account that each unit of the bid is actually a million, and so it only substract literal peanuts from the company budget.

edit 2: and a small one, the options to “Talk with the potential competitors” are missing disable_reuse, meaning you can repeat the visits (and potentially repeatedly damage your chances) with the game acting each time as if you’re doing it for the first time.

edit 3: couple more small glitches.

*if (in_love_rong)

This variable is never set, and as such this text variant and associated options never execute

And Zheng Rong is so bad in the sack, that having sex with them doesn’t even increase MC’s body_count variable, smh.

edit 4: also also, a rather major bug – if you use the drug route to acquire the company, the game still acts as if the old Zheng is in charge, and does the whole “advance days/recalculate odds” routine, ending up with the coin toss whether he sells it to MC or the competition:

Guess i should ask for money back on those drugs

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Make sure you study the granddaughter when the option for Red Dragon Cinema’s leadership pops up. You should have the option to meet her after the meeting. If you’re a playboy, be direct and say you wanna fuck her.

You will smash Zhang’s granddaughter, steal his lifelong company, and curse him to rot in an elderly home for the rest of his life.

Welcome to the true Jinlai route.

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You don’t have to, that’s just a flavor option. Simply entertaining their delusions works just as well. In fact, the direct approach requires charm perk to mitigate the damage, otherwise it backfires.

No, that’s incorrect. This is the script for this option:

  #"Not really. I do want to fuck you, though."
//...
    *gosub_scene sbr stat_check "charm"
    *if (stat_check)
//...
      *if (ro_male)
//...
        *goto rong_hotel
      *else
//...
        *goto rong_hotel
    *else
//...
      *if male = true
//...
        *return

      *else
//...
        *return

None of it depends on MC’s background. It makes no difference if your MC is a playboy or not, the check is mandatory part of that option. “Playboy” and “charm” are separate factors in the game. You might’ve picked Charm for your Playboy character but them being a Playboy had nothing to do with passing the check in that case.

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But if you’re a playboy than you pass the charm check so his advice isn’t wrong. But I think you have to flatter her is you aren’t one.

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You’re right you need partying not playboy. Swap what I said with that.

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Any tips with Xufei, I want her to kiss me in the next date. But I’m an inteligence guys

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How can anyone give you tips about something that isn’t yet in the game? You’d be better off asking for next lottery numbers with the same chance of success.

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That’s loser talk; remember to be yourself @Khuong_Tran and cheat.

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The save system rely on stats if the stats from each update don’t change. Everything will be save up.

If the author in this case in jinlai like to change those stat. You have to start from the beginning of the story.

Usually the story change so much that a fresh start is good.
(either the save system is good).

Hey ! @NickyDicky
A little reply to say that i still love the fact that i can export the game in a single file. That Awsome !!

Don’t forget stat are not the story. Silmplfy everything. Less stat, the better.

Take care.

Till next.

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